Do you have a view on China and ASEAN and the South China Sea issues?
China Daily also reports that a meeting by senior officials of China and ASEAN member states on the South China Sea issue is to be kicked off in Beijing on Friday.
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It should not be a situation between China and ASEAN, it should be bilateral matters.
Only exports most affected by the China-ASEAN pact are to be freed on signature in June, and agreements on intellectual-property rights and investment-protection are to be negotiated.
In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".
The same day it was announced that Zhu would make an ASEAN tour starting Nov. 22 and represent China at the ASEAN-East Asian informal summit in Manila.
Today, the Permanent Delegation continues to work even more closely with UNESCO, Permanent Delegations, Electoral Groups, Regional Groupings like the G 77 and China, the ASEAN UNESCO Committee, and as well other international organizations like the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat in Bangkok, Thailand in addressing some of the current, global challenges that are confronting the organization.
East Asian nations -- China, Korea and ASEAN -- have emerged as major consumers.
Asean is China's third-largest trading partner, according to China's Ministry of Commerce.
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We took note of the ASEAN-China Joint Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the DOC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 19 November 2012.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
We recognized the importance of the 2002 ASEAN-China Declaration on the Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea and welcomed its implementation.
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Will the leaders affirm the kind of guiding principles that President Obama articulated last year at Bali, and will there be a consensus around and a push towards both progress between ASEAN and China on a code of conduct, but also a general trend towards pushing for deescalation.
So while, as Ben said, the EAS is not a forum in which countries will adjudicate or prosecute their particular claims, it is a forum in which they can discuss these principles and give encouragement to the ongoing diplomatic process between ASEAN and China that seeks to establish rules under a code of conduct that would govern behavior and prevent 24:13.
They would call for "the early adoption of a code of conduct in the South China Sea, " referring to a legally binding pact ASEAN would like to forge with China to replace a 2002 nonaggression accord that has failed to stop territorial skirmishes.
On January 1st China's FTA with ASEAN, the world's biggest by population, came into effect.
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Meanwhile, Asean is seeking China's agreement on a code of conduct on disputes in the potentially oil-rich South China Sea.
In 2000 ASEAN along with China, Japan and South Korea launched a multilateral arrangement of currency swaps, the Chiang Mai Initiative.
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Asean countries and China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand have also launched negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact, which seeks to strengthen regional trade.
Since then the influence in Myanmar of both India and, especially, China has grown, while ASEAN's decision-making and diplomacy have been handicapped by the membership of a government abhorrent to the West.
Why do you think -- and you all deal in ASEAN countries, as well as China -- why do you think that has happened, specifically with the ASEAN nations?
"China will seize this opportunity of making joint efforts with ASEAN countries to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea and bring benefits to people in the region, " said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin.
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General Surayud Chulanont, the prime minister in Thailand's military-backed government, suggested the creation of a regional forum to solve Myanmar's crisis, comprising ASEAN, India, China and the UN, modelled on the six-party talks on North Korea.
It laid down a marker on China's illegal claims to the South China Sea by siding with the ASEAN nations, but this is only rhetoric until we revive a real, conventional military relationship with the Philippines, our only treaty ally in that region.
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